Women’s and Men’s Authorship Experiences: A Prospective Meta-Analysis
The opaqueness of author naming and ordering, when coupled with power dynamics, can lead to a number of disadvantages in academic careers. In this commentary, we investigate gender differences in authorship experiences in a large prospective meta-analytic study (k = 46; n = 3,565; 12 countries). We find that women’s and men’s authorship experiences differ significantly with women reporting greater prevalence of problematic behaviors. We present seven actionable recommendations for improving the receipt and reporting of intellectual credit. Such actions are needed to ensure fairness in authorship, which is one of the most powerful factors in academics’ career outcomes.
Authors
- Amanda Sophia Hinojosa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4572-9172)
- Jako Volschenk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1423-4417)
- Laura M. Giurge (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7974-391X)
- William L. Gardner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4694-9951)
- Jason R. Pierce (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6879-0780)
- Sven Kepes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3418-5819)
- Murad A. Mithani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7016-3276)
- M. Fernanda Garcia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2240-7667)
- Betsy H. Albritton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3438-8539)
- Srinivasan Tatachari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1838-2361)
- Joseph A. Allen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3894-3405)
- Deborah E. Rupp (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5992-3879)
- Dejun Tony Kong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6424-7964)
- Lisa M. Rasmussen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9339-0770)
- Christopher E. Whelpley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5839-9283)
- Markus Langer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8165-1803)
- Liam P. Maher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2903-352X)
- Roni Reiter‐Palmon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8259-4516)
- Courtney Williams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7173-8147)
- Ernest H. O’Boyle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9365-1069)
- María Figueroa-Armijos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7060-908X)
- Christopher M. Castille (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2198-6417)
- James G. Field (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8487-6648)
- John H. Batchelor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3154-1654)
- Zion R. Howard
- Jeffrey M. Pollack (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0704-9531)
- Andrew Bennett (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1991-3611)
- Lorenz Graf‐Vlachy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0545-6643)
- Nicolas Bastardoz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3679-3711)
- Haley M. Woznyj (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7664-7949)
- George C. Banks (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2261-2935)
- Scott Tonidandel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1520-8288)
- Elise Demeter (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5993-1692)
- Lakshmi Balachandran Nair (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3693-7922)
- Tiia Vissak (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4984-3629)
- Justin A. DeSimone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2471-6834)
- Jane Shumski Thomas
- Hans‐Georg Wolff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6945-2764)
- J. Jeffrey Gish (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8545-9253)
- Roopak Kumar Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5008-9758)
- William G. Obenauer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9838-1355)
- Tine Köhler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0480-472X)
- Deborah M. Powell (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6901-5671)
- Roman Briker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6328-7430)
- Bart de Jong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1628-1460)
- Mary M. Hausfeld (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2665-4347)
- M. Gloria González‐Morales (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6711-2045)
- Chen Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9720-1073)
- Tao Yang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0992-1992)
- Chao Miao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1191-3238)
- Claudia N. Gonzalez-Brambila
- Teng lat Loi
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte (US)
- University of Central Florida (US)
- Purdue University Northwest (US)
- Boise State University (US)
- West Virginia University (US)
- University of Nebraska at Omaha (US)
- Texas Tech University (US)
- Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IN)
- Claremont Graduate University (US)
- Howard University (US)
- North Carolina State University (US)
- Longwood University (US)
- Western Michigan University (US)
- University of North Carolina Wilmington (US)
- Philipps University of Marburg (DE)
- George Mason University (US)
- Manipal Academy of Higher Education (IN)
- The University of Texas at El Paso (US)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro (US)
- University of Alabama (US)
- University of Cologne (DE)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (US)
- Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (MX)
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- Durham University (GB)
- TU Dortmund University (DE)
- University of Zurich (CH)
- T A Pai Management Institute (IN)
- University of Utah (US)
- Stellenbosch University (ZA)
- University of Colorado System (US)
- Maastricht University (NL)
- Dominion University College (GH)
- Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (NL)
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (US)
- Nicholls State University (US)
- University of Tartu (EE)
- Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (IT)
- Indiana University (US)
- University of Maine (US)
- University of Guelph (CA)
- Old Dominion University (US)
- University of West Florida (US)
- Grand Valley State University (US)
- Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord (FR)
- London School of Economics and Political Science (GB)
- Salisbury University (US)
- KU Leuven (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Management
- Published
- 2025-02-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063251315701
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Academic integrity and plagiarism
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.73
Funders
- Kelley School of Business, Indiana University